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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010

"Hello, and welcome to the Systems Calibration Registry for Engineering Wireless Upgrades!As you all know, this is a big year for our Brunswick team: they successfully released version 2007.18 last week!

[polite applause]

"Great job, guys!

"Now, before we get started on our exciting 5-day agenda of software and development lectures, why don't we break the ice with a good old fashioned game of Telephone? Johnson, you start."

Missed it by that much. I will have to say at least everything is spelled correctly, well spaced, and legible. The person who placed the order got what they deserved. For something like that, you WRITE IT DOWN, PEOPLE. (clears throat) That is all.

wv: subpater, a genealogy term in the descendancy of the male line:great-grandfather, grandfather, father, stepfather, subpater

We have a phone where I work. We use it to call about confusing, illegible orders left by anyone that's not a decorator. Do they not have a phone in this bakery? Not even a cell phone on them? Whyyyy did they think this is the exact message they wanted??

I never get your movie references because my memory is just terrible. I'm assuming the monkey line is from a movie but I can't find which one. (Yes, I research these things.) Anyone want to help me out?

I bet you're a real hoot at the game "Mad Gabs!" Ever play?My introduction to the game was memorable. Me: "How do you play?"Friend handing me a card: "Read it."Me: "Eye needle axe ate if"Me: I don't get it. Is it a riddle?"Friend giggling: "Kind of. Read if faster."Me (faster): "Eye needle axe ate if."Friend: "Little faster."Me: "I need a laxative....oh, no further instruction needed. Let's play." Nothing like an embarassing announcement to a roomful of friends to get a rousing game going!:-)

A gem as always. It's funny... as you may have heard, we had a pretty major earthquake in Christchurch, New zealand, on Saturday the 4th, and many essential services (like internet!) were disrupted.I thought that after our long sojourn in the low-tech wilderness, boiling drinking water on a camp stove and playing board games by candlelight, that I'd miss my social networking sites the most. But where did I almost unconsciously head when I finally saw the green light on our router? Why, Cake Wrecks of course! And I found enough brilliant posts to really put a smile back on my face. I'm a long time reader, very infrequent commenter, but it seems a true die-hard CW addict. Thanks so much for bringing some much-needed giggles after a pretty cruddy week. xo

P.S You would have enjoyed the "earthquake-wrecks" in the local supermarket bakery on Sunday!Some smart alec piped things like "Oops!" and "D'oh!" along with the date on top of each and put them out under a sign reading "Shakey Bakey Specials" at rock bottom prices. Honestly if I had the presence of mind to carry my camera, you'd have loved it :)

Lol at what those letters spell out. Screw U is right especially if I got a cake like that I would feel a bit screwed lol. Whoever ordered it probably figured oh well they will eat it anyways.. which is true but still to have paid for that I would say that wreckerator definitely screwed the person paying.

If the wreckery didn't have a phone, they wouldn't be able to take phone orders.

If the wreckerator called back because something didn't make sense, either (s)he wouldn't be a wreckerator, or the wreckery would have the world's biggest phone bill.

The cure? "Please read back what I asked you to write on the cake. Spell out any words you aren't sure about." Of course, there is a high likelihood of *that* winding up on the cake, but at least the customer did everything humanly possible to avoid a wreck.

Another possibility is fax, but then you have the spectre of the fax being printed on the cake...

New cars have wreck avoidance technology. Why can't bakeries have the same?

They released version 2007.18 last week? Sounds more like another company we know.

Perhaps the cake is the output from (and refers to) their "CakeWriter Pro" (version 2008.x still in beta). The intent is for it to be able to decorate cakes from phone orders in real time, but the voice recognition obviously still needs major debugging.

wv: rettive. What wreckerators accuse complaining customers of being. "Why are you so rettive?""Do you mean 'retentive'?" "Whatever."

@ Anonymous, 1:02pm: You're right, it was pretty major! We're a strong city though and the recovery made in just one week is so inspiring. Most schools re-open tomorrow, and the city is slowly coming to life again. There are thousands of volunteers out there doing such amazing work too; real back-breaking stuff like shovelling the tons of mud that just welled up out of the ground and submerged so many homes. It will take some years to come back fully from this, and so much of our beautiful heritage is gone, but....

*was about to type something about the aftershocks being pretty much gone so we can all get a decent night's sleep, and we got a HUGE one eeek!*

My cat is so much more cuddly this week. That's gotta be a plus :P

I always come back to the CW comments because sometimes they're nearly as good as the posts! Such witty readers here :)

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